24 JANUARY 1941, page 24

You Have Been Listening To . By Commander A. B.

Campbell, R.D. (Chapman and Hall. 58.) "I HAD just written a story," so Commander Campbell begins his guileless little book of B.B.C. gossip, "which I proposed to send to the......

Finance And Investment

By " CUSTOS " THESE are not the days for ritualistic company meetings or for pee.rings into the trade horoscope. Everybody will therefore approve the banks' decision to reduce......

The Tide Ot Fortune. By Stefan Zweig. (cassell. Ros. 6d.)

THIS rather odd collection of historical incidents is only partly explained by the misty Teutonic foreword on the subject of history—" the spiritual mirror of nature," whatever......

Leninism. By Joseph Stalin. (lawrence And Wishart. 7s. 6c1.)

IN 1924 Stalin delivered a series of lectures at Sverdlovit University under the title Problems of Leninism, in which amogf other things he followed current orthodoxy by......